Targeted Fat Loss Blog

We all have those days that just stink. Whether it's just our state of mind or a few things that just don't go right in the day, we just don't feel good. You wake up in the morning and get out of bed, feeling a bit cranky from not getting a restful night sleep. Then you go to have your breakfast and realize there are no eggs left. Yikes... It's time to head off to work and you just miss your bus. I hate that, when you see it pulling away as you walk up and they won't wait for you, even though they see you running! You get to work late and then your boss wants to have a chat. Uh oh! And the day just goes on from there. What do you do for yourself when you see this bad day start to unfold? Do you turn to food to comfort yourself? Does it EVER make you feel any better? Maybe the immediate gratification of the tasty chocolate in your mouth seems to put a smile on your face, but does it really? When you have finished ravishing through the chocolate and secretly thrown away the wrapper, because you can't believe it's 9am and you have just devoured a kingsize chocolate bar, how do you feel? Does the day go better or do you actually have a feeling of guilt for actually turning to food, which only makes you beat yourself up more? Most of the people I speak to, take the guilty path. I have done something "naughty" so I will feel guilty and punish myself the rest of the day, which usually leads to eating more "bad" foods. It's a vicious cycle really, isn't it? I know... I've been there and did it for many years. Ultimately, what you do with yourself, the way your day unravels and the decisions you make... are all up to you. When your day starts to go down the drain, you can choose to let it continue that way, or you can do something about it. For me the best way to do something about it is to stop. I recognize my mood and choose to change it. Go outside and take some time to breathe. Get up from your desk and walk around. Wherever you are, just stop what you are doing and re-focus. Start to think of good things. Put a smile on your face. Laugh (even if it's a fake one)! If you know about using resource anchors, then use an anchor to change your mood. (If you don't then, let's set up a time to teach you.) Sometimes the eating happens so quickly that you don't even realize you've done it until it's too late... The crumbs are already scattered! If you still have moments where this happens, do yourself a favor... don't beat yourself up about it. Just recognize what you did an do what you have to do to create a better mood or state of mind. Then move on. Make sense? Just because you did that doesn't mean you are a bad person... just means you ate some food, maybe lots of it. :) At the end of the day, you are in control of the way you feel and eating won't change that! So, choose to feel better without relying on food and you will truly feel better. Plus, you will be really proud of yourself for not turning to food. This is truly just a decision that can be easily made. Bring it on!

I am just back from a 2 week trip to California, where I was visiting family. (I live in Sydney now, although I am originally from Chicago).

Usually when we go to the US, we come back kilos heavier and our clothes don’t fit. We tend to eat foods that aren’t good for us and that are loaded with unnecessary additives and generally speaking… eat too much crap. Unfortunately a very American way of life, that is becoming all too common in Australia as well.

In any case… I was shocked to learn that I had mostly maintained my size and even dropped a bit of fat around my belly. Complete shock, as I was totally convinced that I had gained fat. My point here… it’s amazing what the mind can do.

We can think ourselves thin and we can think ourselves fat. I honestly looked in the mirror and saw a fatter person and also, thought that my clothes weren’t fitting as well.

I teach my clients all the time that the biggest thing to overcome in your mission of creating your ideal body, is your mind. Trust me when I tell you, I got into this field and wanted to solve my own problems with yo-yo diets and have done a lot of work on my nutrition, exercise and mindset, but yes.. i still have some skeletons in the closet that come out every so often.

Let me preface this mission with the fact that I have already started working on losing fat that I had gained during my pregnancy. I have been working on this the past few months. My husband, Hugh, did a phenomenal course teaching him to actually spot reduce fat. In other words… get rid of fat in those areas of your body that you struggle to get rid of, no matter how hard you try. Things like love handles, flabby arms, your butt, hips, thighs, man boobs, etc.

It is all based on balancing the hormones in your body and works AMAZINGLY well. Here has been the problem with it… when we first started, our protocol was to go on a very high protein diet. We eliminated everything but meat and some veggies, (a minimal amount of the veggies). I LOVE veggies, fruit and yes chocolate. So what happened, I believed i had no variation of food, got bored of meat, my body struggled to break all the meat down and in my mind… I felt so restricted. So… I started to hide eating sweets from Hugh. (How many of you have done this?) Even hid eating fruit! The funny things was, I was still dropping the cms/inches. The problem with this was massive…

I started to feel guilty about my eating and hiding it from Hugh, so I started eating more of it. Yes, even though I teach how to stop this horrible spiral, I too became a victim of it. Yikes! It hasn’t lasted long (only a few weeks), and here I am telling you the tale, so that hopefully it will help you get out of any vicious spirals downwards that you are creating for yourself. Once I started feeling guilty and binging more, I started to put fat on, only small amounts, but the past few weeks that is what happened. I got more stressed and my body stored the fat. Again… I’m showing you the power of the mind.

So… I have taken control back. The first step for me was admiiting this problem to Hugh, so yesterday we talked about everything that happening for me. I told him everything. We talked about what was happening in my mind, uncovered a few more things and I’m getting back on track now, in my own way. The one thing I tell all my clients when they want to lose weight is that what you eat, must be sustainable long term. Don’t worry about diets, just eat whole foods.
 
If you don’t know about whole foods, check out our site, www.targetedfatloss.com.au to get our course and learn more. So this is my commitment… Go back to basics, eat whole foods, if I chose to eat anything outside of that, I will and know it’s a choice I make and feel ok about that. This is the mission… to show you that eating a balanced diet, combined with exercise, some supplementation and the right mindset will get you the results you desire.